3.9
Fantasy & SciFi
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.
Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world ""jams"" the ""frequencies"" used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.
And so the Department of Diachronic Operations—D.O.D.O. —gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart.
Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places—and times—beyond imagining.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780062676986
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 13 juni 2017
3.9
Fantasy & SciFi
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.
Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world ""jams"" the ""frequencies"" used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.
And so the Department of Diachronic Operations—D.O.D.O. —gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart.
Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places—and times—beyond imagining.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780062676986
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 13 juni 2017
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Mattias
5 aug. 2020
En av de två bästa tidsrese- böcker som jag lyssnat på. Skriven på ett intressant sätt, som att man får beskrivet att för sig efteråt via dokument och inspelningar.(Den andra bästa tidsreseboken är ”paradox bound” också super bra. Kan också rekommendera time machene av hg wells)
Jimmy
28 juli 2021
Började väldigt bra där de pratade om many worlds teorin om kvantmekanik, sen var det som att de tyckte det dög med efterforskning och helt plötsligt kallades det multiverse och parallella världar istället, vilket är något helt annat
Niklas
15 jan. 2022
Den började bra, men spårade ur. Gillade inte slutet. Meh.
Tomas
15 feb. 2023
Den började bra och var spännande. Sen gick det utanför. Orkade inte lyssna mer. Slösade bort nio timmar på den
Markus
11 aug. 2021
En väl underbyggd och detaljerat spännande vision som sammanfogar en historisk tid då magi förekom naturligt med dagens högteknologiska samhälle. Mycket bra planerad historia och skickliga personporträtt! Högsta betyg och ger mersmak för att återläsa Stephenson's tidigare böcker Snow Crash och Diamond Age. Rekommenderas!
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